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It seems as though its a near certainty. the question obviously is how much hemorrhaging on the republican side will there be. democrats have remained pretty strongly against trump. both in terms of their overall disapproval of the president in public opinion polls and support for impeachment. the numbers in the cnn poll that i saw earlier have gone up. among republicans. theyre still low. like 14%. but to me thats the number that ill be watching to see whether theres increasing pressure on the ...

Election. thats fine. you can investigate behavior and government does that all the time but how unusual for a sitting attorney general to go to meet with british officials, italian and australian officials and the president pushing the australian prime minister to cooperate? how should people at home take that? >> look. i worked i think under four attorneys general, five if you count sally yates and this is remarkable. william barr is becoming the forrest gump of the presidents wrongdoing. its ...

Russia interference probe? >> it looks like its serious to the president and the attorney general. what they will uncover and what we will all learn? im not sure. the muleer investigative was exhaustive. the indictment issued against the russian -- is iron-class. will they find anything that suggests the probe shouldnt have been opened when tiffs so successful and resulted in what we know is wrongdoing? i dont think so. will they find some dirt to low on some people, some inappropriate conversat...

Be able to put together about any kind of wrongdoing. it is also critical for some of these officials who will be the building blocks of a broader case about who knew what when, and particularly how high in the trump administration. im particularly interested in what kurt volker had to say. he is a key person in all of this. he played a middle man role between giuliani and the ukrainians. what did he know about why that aid was held up, and about what giuliani was supposed to be doing exactly? w...

Youre watching cnn. im brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. the story today in washington the congressional recess seems to be code for anything but a break as this impeachment inquiry launched by democrats inten phis along with pushback from the trump white house. now two top officials, mike pompeo and william barr, the latest high-profile names entangled in president trumps attempts to get foreign governments to act on his behalf. today secretary pompeo is taking aim as democrats who w...

Paramount. so i think the president continues to obstruct. its the reason i came over to the impeachment side. the fact that the president disregarded the constitutional ability of congress to oversee the executive branch. and i think more importantly, on the heels of the special counsels testimony, the call with ukraine takes place. >> right. >> the presidents never been held accountable -- >> the day after. >> -- for wrongdoing. >> the day after, the day after. >> the day after. he says, well,...

Democrat to do this, its brief history, but the history is so intense working with mang p. whether he had assigned a u.s. attorney to do it or not, he has a lot of pressure on him by one important guy and thats the president of the united states. >> sure does. dana bash, carrie cordero, thank you very much, you guys. im going to speak live with one of the individuals in the start of the russia investigation as we learn about bill barr. and another potential whistleblower, this one alleging wro...

Obstruction of justice and the obstruction of congress. i think those are also major articles. >> max, listen, before i get to michael, i hope people at home are listening. could you ever imagine a president of the united states tweeting out or saying something like that about someone who works in the government, about a whistle-blower, that we want to find out who they are, its treason? i mean its -- its just -- i cant believe its -- i cant believe i actually read it when i read it. >> yeah. i ...

Job, which is what he has claimed in the past, claiming that, you know, he had a beautiful conversation. there was nothing wrong with it, even though we can read with our own eyes the rough transcript that the white house itself released, and the quid pro quo is right there. the wrongdoing is right there in those ten little words. i would like you to do us a favor, though -- those words with kevin mccarthy, the minority leader of the house apparently was not familiar with. he didnt actually read...

Is there not some ground for recusal? hes all over this. >> some grounds. hes like the forrest gump of the presidents wrongdoing. every place you have a question of the president meddling in the justice department or questions about impartiality, attorney general seems to be there. absolutely a question of recusal. heres why. the rules say if theres an appearance of a conflict not even a real conflict and its clear theres at least an appearance when the guy is the gooey named on the call by the ...